The Congressional Progressive Caucus has officially thrown its weight behind a Democratic bill to expand the Supreme Court, in an attempt to push back against Republican efforts to pack the court with right-wing justices.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has officially thrown its weight behind a Democratic bill to expand the Supreme Court, in an attempt to push back against Republican efforts to pack the court with right-wing justices.to endorse the Judiciary Act of 2021. The bill, which was introduced by CPC members Representatives Jerrold Nadler , Hank Johnson and Mondaire Jones and Sen. Ed Markey , would add four justices to the Supreme Court, bringing the total to 13.
Jayapal hailed the legislation as playing an “urgent” role in restoring democracy. “The current bench was filled by a partisan, right-wing effort to entrench a radical, anti-democratic faction and erode human rights that have been won over decades,” she said. “In recent years, this court has gutted the Voting Rights Act and public sector unions, entrenched unconstitutional abortion bans, and failed to overturn the blatantly discriminatory Muslim Ban.
Advocates for Supreme Court expansion and reform praised the decision. “Progress on everything from reproductive freedom, to voting rights, to climate change, racial justice, immigration, and the future of democracy itself, requires us to rebalance this Court,” said Sarah Lipton-Lubet, executive director of Take Back the Court Action Fund.
Though the Supreme Court is supposed to be non-partisan, it has faced scrutiny over past months, particularly forLast month, during an initial hearing for a case brought by Mississippi that directly challenges the decades-old abortion rights decision, the Court’s conservative majority
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